Recommendations
53. Based on the above information, the co-submitting organisations urge reviewing States
to make the following recommendations to Tanzania:
I.
Develop and implement an efficient statistical framework for stateless persons
and a dedicated statelessness determination procedure to help map and identify
stateless people in the country.
II.
Ensure that all children born in Tanzania are registered at birth by providing
accessible and free birth registration.
III.
Amend the nationality law to incorporate a provision for all otherwise stateless
children born on the territory to acquire Tanzanian citizenship.
IV.
Amend the nationality law to include provisions on the right to acquire Tanzanian
nationality for all foundlings within Tanzania.
V.
Amend the nationality law on provisions that discriminate on the basis of gender
to ensure women and men enjoy equal rights to confer nationality to spouses and
to children when the parent is a citizen by descent.
VI.
Amend the nationality law to ensure that Tanzanian men are also able to revert
to Tanzanian citizenship in the event of divorce from a foreign spouse and loss of
foreign nationality.
VII.
Adhere to the provisions of the Tanzania Citizenship Act on jus soli and jus
sanguinis, and not rely on common practice.
VIII.
Consider providing a waiver of the reduced naturalisation application fee to
communities at risk of becoming stateless.
IX.
Amend the nationality law to ensure that Tanzanians who, for various reasons,
acquire foreign citizenship, are able to revert to Tanzanian citizenship in the event
they lose the foreign nationality.
X.
Expedite the immediate naturalisation of the remaining Somali Bantus; the
children of the 1983 naturalised Rwandese refugees; and the pending 1972
Burundian refugees.
XI.
Accede to the 1954 Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the
1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.
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